2009 Longlist Announced

Drum roll ... below, the 2009 Longlist. According to the Booker Prize website, the list includes "two former winners, four past-shortlisted writers, three first-time novelists and a span of styles and themes that make this an outstandingly rich fictional mix."

If you've read any of these, feel free to post your reviews or weigh in with comments!

• The Children's Book by AS Byatt
• Summertime by JM Coetzee
• The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
• How to paint a dead Man by Sarah Hall
• The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
• Me Cheeta by James Lever
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
• The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
• Not Untrue & Not Unkind by Ed O'Loughlin
• Heliopolis by James Scudamore
• Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
• Love and Summer by William Trevor
• The Little Stranger Sarah Waters